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Garrood, Dr Jesse Robert (1874-1959)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GP/43

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Garrood, Dr Jesse Robert (1874-1959)

Date(s): 1931-1957

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes, one oversize

Name of creator(s): Garrood | Jesse Robert | 1874-1959 | general practitioner

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Jesse Robert Garrood MD, DPH (1874-1959), was a general practitioner in Alconbury Hill, Huntingdonshire, 1899-1958. He was Medical Officer of Health, Huntingdon Rural District, 1924-1958, and Public Vaccinator of Alconbury, Sawtry and The Giddings District.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Jesse Robert Garrood, 1930-1951, including 3 day books of his general practice, 1930-1933, 1931-1937 and 1948-1951, and Vaccinator's Register, Jan 1947-Mar 1948.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Practice Day Books; Vaccinator's Register.

Conditions governing access:

Certain restrictions apply. Items 1-3 are closed.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Certain restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The vaccinator's register was passed to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by the Wellcome Institute Library Modern Medicine Collection, November 1989. The other items were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in September 1997 by the Royal College of General Practitioners, which had received them prior to 1983, from Dr Garrood and possibly others.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
General practice | Medical sciences
General practitioners | Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Health policy | Health
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Public health | Health
Vaccination | Preventive medicine | Systems of medicine
Vaccines | Biological products | Drugs | Pharmacology
Public health x Health policy
Personnel
Primary documents

Personal names
Garrood | Jesse Robert | 1874-1959 | general practitioner

Corporate names

Places
Huntingdon | Cambridgeshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe